[German]It's a very unpleasant story: Skype enables the complete takeover of the system by Microsoft under Debian. If a private key is known, the system could be manipulated or malware included. You should not install Skype or install it in an isolated container.
A fatal bug within the popular Thunderbird extension Enigmail can cause mails that shall be encrypted will be send in plain text. Anyone who relies on privacy and sends confidential or even secret information will risks that the mails can be read by third parties.
Tor developers released version 8.0.2 of the browser on October 2, 2018. Firefox is updated to 60.2.1esr and two bugs (Backport fix for Mozilla bug) are fixed.
Microsoft has stopped the rollout of Windows 10 October 2018 Update (V1809) this night. Microsoft confirmed stopped the rollout on Windows 10 KB4464619. Also Media Creation Tool and Media Feature Pack has been pulled.
[German]Another information for administrators running a System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). In SCCM version 1806 there is the problem that updates are not pulled if the WSUS has no connection. Microsoft has released a hotfix for this.
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[German]Just a brief note: For Windows 10 users using a Windows 10 N variant, Microsoft has released the Media Feature Pack for Windows 10 N version 1809. This is required for certain features in Windows 10. Addendum: The Media Feature Pack for V1809 has been re-released on Nov. 13, 2018.
[German]On October 2, 2018, Microsoft released its On Premise solution Microsoft Office 2019. The packages are available in online shops, and I have also seen a variant in my MSDN account. Here is an overview, what to know about Microsoft Office 2019.
A brief information for people downloading the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 10 V1809. This version of ADK no longer includes a Windows PE environment.
Microsoft has replaced the old update KB4456688 with the new security update KB4463110 for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. Users of VS 2015 should install the new update.
Mozilla's developers have just released version 62.0.3 of Firefox browser for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is a maintenance update which closes bugs and vulnerabilities.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
